George Hunn Nobbs
(1799-1884)
BIRTH
October 16, 1799
PLACE
Norfolk, England Great Britain
DEATH
November 5, 1884
PLACE
Norfolk Island, British Empire
FAMILY
SISTER
Lady Flora Hastings
(1806-1839)
BROTHER
George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings
(1808-1844)
SISTER
Sophia Crichton-Stuart, Marchioness of Bute
(1809–1859)
SISTER
Lady Selina Constance Rawdon-Hastings
(1810-1867)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
ANGLICAN
MEMBERSHIPS
SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL MISSIONARY
AWARDS
George Hunn Nobbs (1799–1884) was an English sailor who became a teacher and religious leader on Pitcairn Island in 1828. Married to Sarah Christian, of the Bounty community, he served as pastor, doctor and schoolmaster. He was ordained in England in 1852 and accompanied the islanders’ relocation to Norfolk Island in 1856. Parish and poor-law records contradict his later claim to aristocratic parentage. His career spanned the nineteenth-century Pacific.
EARLY LIFE
George Hunn Nobbs was born on Oct 16, 1799 in Norfolk, England Great Britain. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies George Hunn Nobbs with work or public activity as a merchant, clergyperson. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. George Hunn Nobbs died on Nov 5, 1884 in Norfolk Island, British Empire. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
George Hunn Nobbs was an English sailor who became a teacher and religious leader on Pitcairn Island in 1828. Parish and poor-law records contradict his later claim to aristocratic parentage. George Hunn Nobbs died on Nov 5, 1884 in Norfolk Island, British Empire. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
George Hunn Nobbs, the pastor and schoolteacher on Pitcairn and Norfolk islands. Nechtman studies his rival Joshua Hill; the older island histories contain contemporary or near-contemporary accounts and require critical reading. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Family and collective biographies, primary writings, references and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
1. Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2: 1788–1850, I–Z — Douglas Pike (editor). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
2. The Pretender of Pitcairn Island: Joshua W. Hill – The Man Who Would Be King Among the Bounty Mutineers — Tillman W. Nechtman. [Related biography of his rival and island history] Find on Amazon
3. Pitcairn Island — David Silverman. [Collective biography and island history] Find on Amazon
4. The Mutineers of the Bounty and Their Descendants in Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands — Diana Jolliffe Belcher. [Collective biography and island history] Find on Amazon
5. Pitcairn: The Island, the People, and the Pastor, with a Short Account of the Mutiny of the Bounty — Thomas Boyles Murray. [Collective biography; early missionary account] Find on Amazon
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